github - ghsa-w752-w9m4-4289

ghsa-w752-w9m4-4289

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:20

Modified

2022-05-13 01:20

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

The Live Bookmarks page and the PDF viewer can run injected script content if a user pastes script from the clipboard into them while viewing RSS feeds or PDF files. This could allow a malicious site to socially engineer a user to copy and paste malicious script content that could then run with the context of either page but does not allow for privilege escalation. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.

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CVE-2018-5172 (GCVE-0-2018-5172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-06-11 21:00

Modified

2024-08-05 05:26

Severity ?

CWE

Pasted script from clipboard can run in the Live Bookmarks page or PDF viewer

Summary

The Live Bookmarks page and the PDF viewer can run injected script content if a user pastes script from the clipboard into them while viewing RSS feeds or PDF files. This could allow a malicious site to socially engineer a user to copy and paste malicious script content that could then run with the context of either page but does not allow for privilege escalation. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.

References

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URL

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	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1436482	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896	vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3645-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104139	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Mozilla	Firefox	Version: unspecified < 60

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